Intel has announced its intention to contribute to the development of blockchain technologies using energy-efficient hardware. The company announced a chip with a high hash rate, which will feature low power consumption, reducing not only the carbon footprint, but also electricity bills.
A proprietary ASIC solution called Bonanza Mine is designed to compete with similar products from Bitmain and MicroBT. The architecture of the chip is focused on bitcoin mining at a very low operating voltage. So, the declared performance of the novelty is 137 TH / s per second with a power consumption of 18.2 W per 1 TH.
Commercial release of Intel Bonanza Mine will begin this year. The company says that the production of new products will not affect shipments of upcoming GPUs. According to rumors, Bonanza Mine will be made on TSMC's 5nm process, but this information has not yet been officially confirmed. Intel can also arrange for the production of chips at its own production facilities.
“Intel Labs has spent decades researching strong cryptography, hashing techniques, and ultra-low voltage circuits. To do this, we have formed a new Custom Compute Group within the Intel Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics business unit. The team's goal is to create custom silicon platforms optimized for workloads, including blockchain and other custom accelerated supercomputing capabilities at the edge,” said Raja Koduri, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Accelerated Computing and Graphics Group.
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